This course will qualify those who successfully complete it to use the table saw, the jointer, and the thickness planer. It will comprise a one-hour classroom session covering the three tools with to respect to: tool specifications and features safety considerations selecting the appropriate tool for a given task correct and safe use of the tool The classroom session will be followed by a two to four-hour hands on session. During this session, using the tools will be demonstrated, with student use incorporated along with the demonstration. Part of this session will involve the student creating a small project from rough lumber.

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This course will cover safety, metal cutting, cutting tools, grinding HSS bits, work-holding, and lathe operation. Although the course will mention cutting of iron and mild steel, it will be oriented towards techniques and settings used when cutting aluminum. This consists of a 4 hour-ish lecture (9am-1pm) followed by an individual project. Basic shop safety is a pre-requisite. The project is optional for people with previous experience on a metal lathe – talk to the instructor. The materials and tools required for the project is supplied, although an investment of $10-$50 in your own cutting bits will be required over time as you work on your own projects. Minimum 8 students must be registered to hold the class. Maximum of 20 may attend.

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Protospace gets messy, and is member-run. This means we all have to contribute to the operation, and these cleanups are a great way for anybody to contribute to keeping Protospace clean and presentable, and making sure that the facility is safe and tidy for everybody. Having a group of people show up together who also know what they specifically want to accomplish, will give us the ability to make pretty significant improvements to Protospace every single month. And… There will be food!

As a thank you for those who come out and help, if you put a few hours into cleaning up, you get lunch for free! Food may change, but probably burgers or pizza – suggestions welcome. Lunch will start at around 1:00 which allows people to help clean, get lunch, and still have the second half of the day free.

The more people that come out, the more that will be accomplished, and the less time it will take

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Laser cutter training is open to all members who have been vetted and completed the basic shop safety course and are current on dues. If you are still a probationary member, or otherwise are not eligible to use the laser cutter you may still attend the course, but you will not receive a laser computer login until all requirements are filled. There is no cost to attend the course. The course covers the operation of the laser cutter itself and use of the lasercut 6.0 control software. The course does NOT cover any CAD or software used to generate the .dxf files required for the laser. There are many options of software that will create these files and most are roughly equivalent.

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Laser cutter training is open to all members who have been vetted and completed the basic shop safety course and are current on dues. If you are still a probationary member, or otherwise are not eligible to use the laser cutter you may still attend the course, but you will not receive a laser computer login until all requirements are filled. There is no cost to attend the course. The course covers the operation of the laser cutter itself and use of the lasercut 6.0 control software. The course does NOT cover any CAD or software used to generate the .dxf files required for the laser. There are many options of software that will create these files and most are roughly equivalent.

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This will cover some advanced metal lathe techniques – things like power feeding, single point threading, and working with different types of metal. In addition, it will cover the manual mill including: milling bits, work holding, speeds and feeds, basic DRO usage, and machine operation. This will be a 3 hour-ish lecture (9am-12pm) followed by an individual project. The “Metal – Working with the Lathe” course is a pre-requisite. The project is optional for people with previous experience on a metal milling machine – talk to the instructor. The materials and tools required for the project is supplied, although an investment of $20-$100 in your own cutting bits will be required over time as you work on your own projects. Minimum 8 students must be registered to hold the class. Maximum of 20 may attend.

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This hand-ons Geek-fest explores and demonstrates the poor security practices commonly found in some RFID access systems (Yes, we use an RFID access system. No, we don’t use these same poor practices.)

You will be introduced to RFID access systems, the Wiegand protocol, programing of the BLE key and replay attacks. The BLE Key is a tiny coin-cell operated Bluetooth device — that you get to keep. The BLE Key is an open-source educational tool. This lab will focus on the interaction between the BLE Key, RFID and the Wiegand protocol.

The BLE Key is already assembled, (thanks, Ben!) so this workshop requires no electronics experience, and some programming experience is nice, but not necessary.

The workshop consists of a 30 minute theory presentation and 90 minutes hands on with the hardware.

The cost of the workshop includes your own BLE key, card readers will be available during the lab.

This course will be presented by Ben Reed, former Protospace director and long term member, based in part on work done at SAIT’s RADLab. (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THqVshaNb5g)

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At the meeting held on April 7, the membership revisited the meeting schedule and adopted a motion to schedule meetings on a regular schedule. Conflicts or changes required are to be decided by the members at the meeting before.

The best day/date seemed to be Thursdays, so the 2nd Thursday of the month was chosen.

Thus:
Thursday, May 12
Thursday, June 9
Thursday, July 14
Thursday, August 11
Thursday, September 8Thursday, October 13
Thursday, November 17

Laser cutter training is open to all members who have been vetted and completed the basic shop safety course and are current on dues. If you are still a probationary member, or otherwise are not eligible to use the laser cutter you may still attend the course, but you will not receive a laser computer login until all requirements are filled. There is no cost to attend the course. The course covers the operation of the laser cutter itself and use of the lasercut 6.0 control software. The course does NOT cover any CAD or software used to generate the .dxf files required for the laser. There are many options of software that will create these files and most are roughly equivalent.

This course will qualify those who successfully complete it to use the table saw, the jointer, and the thickness planer. It will comprise a one-hour classroom session covering the three tools with to respect to: tool specifications and features safety considerations selecting the appropriate tool for a given task correct and safe use of the tool The classroom session will be followed by a two to four-hour hands on session. During this session, using the tools will be demonstrated, with student use incorporated along with the demonstration. Part of this session will involve the student creating a small project from rough lumber.